434 
NOTES. 
The Siegesbeckia Orientalis is quite a beautiful plant, The Adansonia • 
digitata is one of the finest and tallest trees, with an elegant flower. 
The Pontedence are also neat looking plants, with handsome flowers. 
page 181. 
Kalm made likewise an extensive tour in Russia , at his own expense. 
These travels have not yet completely appeared, though the author 
is dead. A Swedish literatus at A.bo has been charged with publish- 
ing in an abridgement that part which remains unprinted. But he has 
not yet performed the task assigned: to him. 1 
P A c- Ji 195. 
The do&rine of Linnaeus, respeftmg the bastard-species in the ve- 
getable reign, has enabled the celebrated M. Koelreutkr at St. Pe- 
tersburgh , to produce a vast number of bastard-plants, and even to- 
change one species into another, by means of an artificial fruSification^ 
See Nova Act a Academia; Petropolitance. 
page 200. 
KJ 
It is a matter of the highest regret,, that the leones Specierum Planta- 
rum Carol Linnjsi, of which the Margravine Carolina Louisa 
of Baden projefled 1 publication, has never appeared. The Princess 
did not like execution of the work, which was interupted by the return 
of the French artists, whom she employed, to their country. No more 
than one hundred and thirty-eight plates were finished, and even 
these never picsented to the public. Linnaiu. . ' oured the memory 
ol the Margravine n the genus of the Caro . - a. The first species 
2 
or 
